Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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A week ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was likely to be the Socialist candidate for the presidency of France. Today, he is in a cell in the notorious Rikers Island jail, awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault. Even if these accusations turn out to be baseless, his political career is over. For in their wake have emerged many others, the most damning made by Tristane Banon, a French journalist, who claims that Mr Strauss-Kahn attacked her in 2002. “We fought on the ground,” she has said. “It was more than a couple of